A Charming Paper Journey

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

This
month’s design team project for The Piece by Piece is a “No-Sew” fabric
cuff. Below is a video of the fabric cuff made from muslin fabric.

In
the video, I also show the cuff made from a pair of jeans, and this blog post
is a step-out of how I did that one. It’s basically the same as the
muslin cuff, except for the way the fabric is folded, plus this one is quicker
because I didn’t coffee-dye the fabric.

I
started with cutting a 2-1/2" wide strip from a pair of my son's jeans
that I retrieved from the donation pile.

This
strip is ten inches wide. Using my fingers, I roughed up the cut edges of
the jeans for a frayed look.

Lift the raw edges and
apply Fabri-Tac glue to seal the edges of the fabric closed.

Put Fabri-Tac glue on
the left side of the fabric.

I
folded the right half of the jeans onto the glued half so that it now measures
five inches wide.

I used 24” of seam binding, crinkled it just by putting it between my two
hands and then making a “scrubbing” motion – as if you are washing your
hands.I ran a horizontal string of
Fabri-Tac glue along the center of the trim.

Find
the center of the seam binding, and lay it on the center point of the glue on
the fabric cuff.Instead of laying the
seam binding flat onto the fabric, I scrunched it up a bit before laying it
onto the glue.

I cut a 5 inch piece of the pleated tulle from
The Piece by Piece...

And
formed a circle with it…

I
used Fabri-Tac to glue the pleated tulle down, but only on the center portion
so that the ends remain fluffy.

I
put Fabri-Tac on the back of the Beige Fabric Flower and placed the flower on top of the
pleated tulle.

Add
a Flatback Pearl with Rhinestone to the top of the
flower. If the tulle is extending too far out from your flower, while the
glue is still wet, you can hold down the flower and use a pencil to tuck the
pleated tulle in a bit further under the flower.